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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages who knows, it might have been a better book.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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